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After you’ve spent the time to prepare a Microsoft PowerPoint welcome presentation for stakeholders, an employee training seminar or a product demonstration, you can transfer some of the design elements into other software programs. PowerPoint’s simple text box rotating process can give characters an eye-catching look and with a few clicks -- you can bring these elements into Microsoft Office Suite partner Word. Use slightly-rotated text as your digital signature on paychecks or turn up the text on documents that show detailed diagrams.

1. Navigate to the PowerPoint slide with the rotated text to paste into Word.

2. Click the text box with the text. To know the text box is enabled after you click it, you should see a blue dashed line surrounding the text. When you click the text box itself, that line turns solid blue.

3. Press “Ctrl-C” to copy the text box.

4. Open the Word document to paste the rotated text into and, if necessary, scroll to the page to paste in the text.

5. Press “Ctrl-V” to paste in the rotated text.

Tips

Simply highlighting, copying and pasting the rotated PowerPoint text won’t copy over the rotated look. Instead, the text will simply paste in as regular left-to-right characters. The key is to copy the text box itself.

After you paste in the rotated text, Word places an invisible blue double-lined border around it in the document. Click the text to bring up this border. You’ll see the border when you click it, but it won’t be present if you print the document.

Once the rotated text is pasted into Word, you can treat it like any other Word text box. Click into or highlight the text, then use the "Home" tab's "Font" section to format letters, change the font and color, as well as perform tasks such as right-justifying.

About the Author

Fionia LeChat is a technical writer whose major skill sets include the MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher), Photoshop, Paint, desktop publishing, design and graphics. LeChat has a Master of Science in technical writing, a Master of Arts in public relations and communications and a Bachelor of Arts in writing/English.